gps time of week
how much money can i save by using GPS to VERIFY TIME CARDS in a LAWN CARE business?
my employees turn in a hand-written time card each
week and i know they make them up at the last minute–
also they always put down 1/2 hour for lunch when it
takes them 1/2 hour to drive to and from lunch.
More ofter times then not they leave work for the day earlier
than they are supposed do but report a full days work even
if i catch them
i never get the time cards on time and it
puts unnecessary pressure on my bookkeeper to figure
out payroll and for me to figure out if im making money or
not
on top of that some of my men moonlight while on
my time using my equipment
WHAT CAN I DO?
I CANNOT CONTINUE TO OPERATE MY BUSINESS
THIS WAY!!!
I used to own a business and I can definitely understand where you are coming from.
You have to be careful, because you don’t want to make all of your employees upset and have everyone quit on you. Even employees who really need jobs, will quit if you make them angry.
I would avoid the GPS unit. If you had a GPS unit, you would have to spend extra time to track it.
I would insist that employees fill in their timecard every day. This is a very reasonable request. Make up some story why the timecards now have to be filled out every day.
Also, put your energy into monitoring the cost of every job. Also, if a job took eight hours one time and fifteeen hours the next, you need to find out why.
Get rid of the bad apples. Don’t tolerate bad employees. One bad employee can bring down an entire business. A bad employee brings out the worst in all of the other employees.
Big question. How can you tolerate anyone who is moonlighting on your time with your equipment? Fire that person immediately. This is a no brainer. Bad employees only get worse.
In business, if you ignore a problem it doesn’t go away. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
Consider giving employees financial incentives for meeting target goals.
Good luck.
